Steyr 9mm AUG

I like pistol caliber carbines. I do not as a general rule like bullpups. That being said, I do wantSteyr’s new AUG in 9mm. The Firearm Blog has the details at the link, and I have to agree with Steve: this is a sexy looking gun. That noted weakness for pistol caliber carbines is acting up again, and I can definitely say that this would be a pretty awesome addition to my home defense arsenal. Despite my noted dislike for bullpups, I like that the gun has a 16.5 inch barrel on it…but the OAL is nice and short. Pistol caliber carbines make good home defense guns in my opinion, and the short OAL of this gun would make it easy to swing around indoors. Hopefully it will be available in the States…and it won’t take absurdly expensive proprietary magazines.

I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t get one of these in a rifle caliber instead. Recoil? Noise? Penetration of the 5.56 round is obviously greater, but even your 9mm Luger is going to go through dozens of drywalls sheets before slowing anyhow.

I post this pretty much every time you bring up pistol-caliber carbines. Sorry to be dense, but I just. don’t. get it.

Primarily, 9mm is cheaper to practice with. Honestly though, I don’t have a lot of logical reasons for liking pistol caliber carbines, I just do. They’re pleasant to shoot, quite accurate, and cheap to feed. Sort of like a souped up .22 rifle.

I have the same WANTWANTWANT for pistol caliber carbines, but mostly because I don’t have one at all right now. I agree that there are other “just as good” options for home defense, however, running the same ammo as my carry gun (and even, depending on the combo, the same magazines) is a Good Thing (TM).